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Geek Love

20 Ratings: 4.0
a book by Katherine Dunn

From Publishers Weekly   This audacious, mesmerizing novel should carry a warning: "Reader Beware." Those entering the world of carnival freaks described by narrator Olympia Binewski, a bald, humpbacked albino dwarf, will find no … see full wiki

Author: Katherine Dunn
Genre: General Fiction, Horror
Publisher: Vintage (June 11, 2002)
Date Published: (June 11, 2002)
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review by . May 06
Macabre literary fiction that is both innovative and intoxicating.
Breathtakingly original in plot and in character creation, Geek Love is a unique work of contemporary fiction unlike any other. Initially, I wanted to dislike the story of the complex Binewski clan, not because they were a corporate money making carny family whose yearnings for cash was the golden rule and how to get it the all consuming pastime, but it was because of what the senior Binewski did to his offspring in order to make them more profitable in the carny lifestyle, particularly the Binewski's …
review by . July 07, 2010
posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More
This book starts out in Portland Oregon, the same place author Katherine Dunn presently lives.  The narrator is the daughter of a circus family, telling the story of she and her 'circus freak' siblings.  The 'geek' in 'Geek Love' refers to her father, who bites the heads off of chickens.  The family travels around, the parents concoct all sorts of ways to make freak babies.  They have special talents.  They start a cult.  But it's not as …
Quick Tip by . July 06, 2010
posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More
This book is fantastic- well-written and creative. It's also disturbing in some places, and downright gross in others. Still, it's a cult classic and will always have a space on my shelf.
review by . November 15, 2008
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
It was Douglas E. Winter who said, "Horror is not a genre, it is an emotion." With that bold and all-too-true statement ringing in your ears, I will tell you that "Geek Love" is a horror story. The protagonists are not simply trapped by their physical deformities, but also by their own familial love and the malevolent manipulation from one who is of them.     The majority of the story is told by Olympia Binewski, born into a carnival family of intentional freaks. Al and "Crystal …
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